Denver metro and Colorado Springs data center permits, Q3 2026: three Denver metro sites filed to add capacity, all in Aurora, and six towns paused.

The small hollow grey dots are data centers operating today, from the public PeeringDB facility list, each linked to its PeeringDB record. An operating building is context for the filings and is in no count on this page.

Where two records differ in value, the larger is shown.

Colorado Air Pollution Control Division documents for data centers in the eight counties, from the state's public records system. None fall in Q3 2026. A generator permit rating is backup plant, not the capacity a customer can use, so no rating is shown as megawatts of space. If a state link has expired, search the permit number at the Colorado records portal.

1. 18 May 2026Denver City Council: one-year moratorium on data center zoning and site plans (26-0431).
2. 19 May 2026Jefferson County: 10-month moratorium (county notice).
3. 7 Jul 2026Broomfield: Ordinance 2313, 18 months, unanimous as reported (Colorado Politics).
4. 16 Jul 2026Woodland Park: Ordinance 1525, 18 months, 7-0 (minutes).
5. 20 Jul 2026Monument: Ordinance 18-2026, six months, 6-0 (draft minutes).
6. 23 Jul 2026Colorado Springs Planning Commission: Project Taurus appeals denied 6-2-1, utility use capped at 50 MW (minutes).
7. 10 Aug 2026Aurora City Council: moratorium rejected 6-5 (Denver7); resolution to draft regulations adopted 7-4 (CPR News), as reported.
8. 11 Aug 2026Douglas County: 35-year property tax rebate for Flexential's Parker data center, unanimous (county release).
9. 8 Sep 2026Colorado Springs City Council: Buckingham Drive rezoning conditioned to bar data centers, Ordinance 26-38 (record).
10. 10 Sep 2026Palmer Lake: Resolution 31-2026, temporary moratorium, 4-0 (draft minutes).
11. 17 Sep 2026Colorado Springs City Council: Project Taurus appeal hearing postponed 7-2 to 13 April 2027 (record).
12. 21 Sep 2026Commerce City: six-month moratorium, 7-1 as reported (Westword).
13. 22 Sep 2026Thornton: 12-month moratorium on data centers over 50,000 square feet, 5-3 as reported (BusinessDen).
14. 28 Sep 2026Aurora City Council: evaporative cooling ban, final reading, unanimous as reported (Sentinel Colorado); first reading 14 Sep (Denver Gazette).

• Microsoft, Aurora. About 260 acres near East 56th Avenue and E-470, bought in 2022 (BusinessDen); no record links it to the TEL01 campus.
• NTT Global Data Centers, Aurora. 300,000 square feet under a 2025 incentive agreement, as reported (Sentinel Colorado); no application filed.
• Eight-building campus, Brighton. Rezoning confirmed by the city (Denver7); the site may lie in Weld County, outside the boundary.
• CoreSite DE3, Denver. A second- and third-story data center build-out with new cooling (city record); no power figure, so not counted. QTS DEN1's DC3 fit-out (city record) and build-out (city record) state none either.
• Centersquare DEN2, Douglas County. A chiller, generator and IT equipment plan (county record) and a $34 million tenant finish (county record) at an operating data center; neither states a power figure.
• Earlier build-outs with no power figure. QTS DEN1 DC2's six white boxes, 2025 (city record); 12396 Grant St, Thornton, 2025, expired unissued (city record); a UPS and cooling addition at 4643 S Ulster St, Denver, 2026 (city record). Each is inside an existing data center and states no added power.
• Iron Mountain DEN-1 COLO 5, Denver. Fire records name a build-out; the tenant finish permit (city record) states no scope.
• Novva, 650 Sybilla Lane, Colorado Springs. Growth to 30 MW, announced in 2021 (DCD); no application for new space found.
• Utility power requests, Colorado Springs, reported by the Pikes Peak Bulletin: 12710 Voyager Parkway, 50 MW; 1575 West Garden of the Gods Road, 90 MW, on the Project Taurus campus; Peak Innovation Park and the airport area, four requests, 60 to 500 MW; an existing customer, 72 MW. Operators and filings unconfirmed.

Boundary. Denver metro: Denver, Arapahoe, Adams, Douglas, Jefferson and Broomfield counties. Boulder and Weld counties are separate metropolitan areas; Lochbuie is outside. Colorado Springs: El Paso and Teller counties.

Records read. Denver metro: Aurora building permits, development cases and its development portal's project list by data center wording and QTS; Denver, Douglas County, Thornton, Centennial and unincorporated Adams County permits and planning records at known data center addresses or by wording, all partial. Searched, no data center case since 2025: Jefferson County, Littleton, Westminster, Lakewood, Lone Tree. Not collected: Parker, Brighton, Commerce City, Broomfield, Castle Rock, Englewood, Greenwood Village, unincorporated Arapahoe. Colorado Springs: planning cases and City Council, Planning Commission and Utilities Board records by wording and at known addresses; building permits (regional building department) are not in the record; no applications were identified in the other El Paso and Teller towns. Moratorium records: Denver, Jefferson County, Broomfield, Commerce City, Thornton, Monument, Palmer Lake, Woodland Park. State: Air Pollution Control Division generator permits for data centers in the eight counties, listed and never counted; the Public Utilities Commission's large-load tariff case. These sources cover all seven quarters, Q1 2025 to Q3 2026, alike.

What is counted. Only permitting that adds data center buildings or capacity: new buildings and the jobs filed for them, planning cases for new data center sites, and, inside a data center already permitted, work whose filing states added power with a figure. Cooling or build-out work there with no power figure does not count, nor do replacements, repairs, renovations, fire and life-safety work, renewals and amendments; QTS's 3 MW liquid-cooling conversion converts a hall already in use. Aurora's two 2026 site plans not yet accepted count as planning cases: both were reported in the city portal before 1 October. Aerotropolis is dated 11 August, the submission date on its documents in the record; TEL01, with none, by its application number, 25 September, which the city issues in one sequence with its permits. Each record reads an application date of 12 October. A site is one address or one campus and counts once in a quarter in which it files, however many permits it files. A project is one piece of work however many records it has, dated by its first filing.

Certificates of occupancy. One since January 2025 at a data center address in the record: Denver's temporary certificate for the CoreSite DE3 building, 2026-OCCUPANCY-0000577, finaled 13 August 2026, a month before its data center build-out permits were filed. A certificate marks a building finished, never capacity available.